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6 to 10 miles, depending on the weather and also if we're camping vs. day hiking. Luna would happily go further in cool weather, but we're not really close enough to any sufficiently large wilderness areas to get many chances to do longer hikes with her outside the warm season. We do sometimes drive down to Florida to hike during winter break, usually in the Ocala National Forest area, and are thinking of taking a backpacking trip with her there next winter--although Florida can be quite hot even that time of year! I guess it's just that we've never really taken the time to acclimate her to high temps, for example, in the summer I'll get up at dawn with her to walk or run several miles before the temps get into the mid-80s, so she's never been forced to bite the bullet and do even relatively short walks in really hot weather. It was around 80 when we took these pics, and when we were hiking through more exposed areas where the only vegetation was dune grass, she kept diving into the grass to find relief from the hot sand and a little shade. I wish she'd wade into lakes and streams to cool off when we come to them, but she's just not a water dog at all. She was clearly having a great time, though.

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This is a gorgeous photo of Peace. Such a sweet girl. Rody refuses to look at me when I try to take a photo of her, even with the camera phone, which doesn't flash. My best photos of her are when she's sleeping.